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title: Then I told him my name and my father’s name, and why I came there,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I told him my name and my father’s name, and why I came there, for indeed I had grown weary of gaining the mastery over all men at home, and sought if perchance there was one who could gain the mastery over me. Who acts: I, one, my, father. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, T
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 18

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Then I told him my name and my father’s name, and why I came there, for indeed I had grown weary of gaining the mastery over all men at home, and sought if perchance there was one who could gain the mastery over me.

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**Who acts:** I, one, my, father · **What happens:** tell, come, grow, gain, seek, be · **To what, where:** name, hunger, mastery, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, my, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:30:18
# text = Then I told him my name and my father’s name, and why I came there, for indeed I had grown weary of gaining the mastery over all men at home, and sought if perchance there was one who could gain the mastery over me.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
24	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mastery	mastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	perchance	perchance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	40	expl	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nsubj	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	mastery	mastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	over	over	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I | my name and my father's name | hunger |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | I |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | indeed, weary *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **gain** | gerund | I *not said here* | the mastery |  |  |  | over all men at home | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mastery=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **gain** | could | one | the mastery |  |  |  | over me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mastery=Theme |
| 8 | **name** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **name** |  | my father |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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